Sea SnakesKrieger Publishing Company, 1999 - 148 sivua This text describes the varieties and distribution of sea snakes, what they eat and what eats them, how they reproduce and grow, and how they cope with excess salt and scarcity of freshwater. It also discusses how they adjust to diving at depth, and describes the nature of their venom. |
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Tulokset 1 - 3 kokonaismäärästä 48
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... ( Aipysurus laevis ) recaptured at Mystery Reef on 24 January 1984 that had been freeze - branded with the number 86 in July 1981 . ( Photograph by the author ) Plate 19 ( right ) An olive sea snake ( Aipysurus laevis ) with its tongue ...
... ( Aipysurus laevis ) recaptured at Mystery Reef on 24 January 1984 that had been freeze - branded with the number 86 in July 1981 . ( Photograph by the author ) Plate 19 ( right ) An olive sea snake ( Aipysurus laevis ) with its tongue ...
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Harold Heatwole. T B Plate 22 An olive sea snake ( Aipysurus laevis ) , with its skin heavily overgrown with algae ... ( Aipysurus laevis ) pictured here , have enlarged ventral scales , nearly as large as those of ter- restrial snakes ...
Harold Heatwole. T B Plate 22 An olive sea snake ( Aipysurus laevis ) , with its skin heavily overgrown with algae ... ( Aipysurus laevis ) pictured here , have enlarged ventral scales , nearly as large as those of ter- restrial snakes ...
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... snake ( Aipysurus laevis ) venom by five species of prey fish , Toxicon 30 : 259–264 . Zimmerman , KD , Walters , DJ , Hawkins , CJ and Heatwole , H ( 1993 ) Effects of fractions isolated from venom of the Olive Sea Snake Aipysurus laevis ...
... snake ( Aipysurus laevis ) venom by five species of prey fish , Toxicon 30 : 259–264 . Zimmerman , KD , Walters , DJ , Hawkins , CJ and Heatwole , H ( 1993 ) Effects of fractions isolated from venom of the Olive Sea Snake Aipysurus laevis ...
Sisältö
PREFACE | 1 |
The Kinds of Sea Snakes 5 Origin and Evolution of Sea Snakes | 8 |
Regional Distributions | 18 |
Tekijänoikeudet | |
14 muita osia ei näytetty
Muita painoksia - Näytä kaikki
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
Acalyptophis peronii Acrochordus granulatus Aipysurus duboisii Aipysurus eydouxii animals Astrotia stokesii Australia Barrier Reef Bitia hydroides blood body breathing cavum cent Cerberus rynchops clutch coast Cogger colubrid coral reefs Disteira diving eels eggs elapids Emydocephalus annulatus Enhydrina schistosa envenomation enzymes fang females Figure file snakes fish foraging Fordonia leucobalia fresh water freshwater genera Glen Burns Guinea habitat Harold Voris Heatwole homalopsines Hydrophis coggeri Hydrophis ornatus Indonesia Islands Kerilia land snakes Lapemis curtus Laticauda colubrina Laticauda semifasciata laticaudids Malaysia mangrove marine snakes metres muscle Myotoxins natricines Nerodia neurotoxins northern Australia occur olive sea snake oxygen Pelamis platurus Philippines Photograph courtesy Plate populations predators prey reptiles respiration respiratory saccular lung sea kraits sea snake Aipysurus sea snake bite sea snake venom skin snake Aipysurus laevis species of hydrophiids species of marine species of sea Sri Lanka submergence surface swallowing terrestrial snakes Thalassophina toxic toxins true sea snakes Zimmerman